Residents of Ribeirão Preto abandon their homes due to fire in the region

This Saturday (24), after the fires that are happening in the interior of São Paulo, residents are abandoning their homes due to the smoke from the fires that are happening in Ribeirão Preto.

In the interior of São Paulo, there is a dust storm and a lot of smoke, and residents saw the only solution as abandoning their homes. On the networks, including X, we see residents leaving their homes due to the excess dust and smoke.

Monitoring

According to monitoring by the Emergency Management Center (CGE) of the Civil Defense of the State of São Paulo, there are currently 34 cities under fire alert and 24 with active fires that are causing problems in the interior of São Paulo. The assessments made on the fires were made this Saturday (24). The fires end up getting worse due to the low humidity of the heat, which ends up worsening the fires in the state. Governor Tarcísio de Freitas, today, will fly over the areas of fires in the interior of São Paulo.

^{Showing devastation in the forests and houses (VIDEO: reproduction: O Povo/Youtube)}

Bulletin

A bulletin released at 9:30 a.m. states that a highway in the state of São Paulo is partially closed. The SP 215 (Luiz Augusto de Oliveira Highways) at km 195 and km 209, which are located in the municipality of Dourado, in the São Carlos region, are blocked, preventing the passage of vehicles, but there is a detour on the municipal highway, to be more specific at km 195 of the highway.

Fighting fires and providing guidance to the population mobilized around 7,300 professionals and volunteers. On Friday (23), the state government set up a crisis office, which remains active and is called Operation SP Sem Fogo, which integrates specialists from the State Civil Defense and the secretariats of Public Security (SSP), Agriculture and Supply, and Environment, Infrastructure and Logistics (Semil).

Featured photo: fires in natural vegetation (Reproduction: Gustavo Basso/NurPhoto /Getty Images Embed)